Fence



(No Model.)

J. A. MANNING. Fence.

No; 43,279; Patented June 21, I881.-

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC JAMES A. MANNING, OF DANVILLE, INDIANA.

FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,279, dated June 21, 1881.

Application filed March 23, 1881. No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMEs A. MANNING, of

. Danville,in the county of Hendricks and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in'Fences, of which the following is a specification.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of my improved fence. Fig. 2 is a sectional end elevation of the fence. Fig. 3 shows the loops at the upper ends of the wire.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

The object of this invention is to facilitate the construction of fences and increase their strength and durability.

A represents the base-blocks or sills, upon which the other parts of the fence rest. B are the rails, O are the stakes, and D are the riders or top rails, of the fence.

In building the fence the ends of the bottom rails, B, of two adjacent panels are overlapped upon the middle part of a sill, A. The middle part of a wire, E, is passed around the middle part of the sill A, and is crossed above the overlapped ends of the bottom rails, B. The ends of the next pair of rails B are overlapped above the crossed wire E, and the wireis crossed above the said ends, and so on until the desired height has been obtained, The wires are crossed above the last or top rails, and loops F are formed upon the ends of the said wires to receive the upper parts of the stakes 0. The

outer ends of the stakes O are drawn down to rest upon the ground. The stakes are then pressed upward and their lower ends are slipped laterally into notches Gr, formed in the upper sides of the ends of the sills A. The notches G are inclined, the outer sides being upon the same inclination as the stakes O, and the inner sides having a more gradual inclination, as shown in Fig. 2. The lower ends of the stakes O are beveled to fit into the notches G, and can be secured against being knocked out of the said notches by wires H, wound around the said lower ends and the ends of the sill A, or by nails driven through the said lower ends and into the sill A. The ends of the wires E, alter forming the loops F, are left long enough to be passed around the overlapped ends of the riders D, and are then twisted together, forming aloop,l, to keep the said riders D securely in place.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-' In a fence, the combination of a single basepiece having a notch, G, at each end, a Wire, E, held at the middle under said base-piece, and having the two parts crossed between every two adjacent rails of a panel, and the crossstakes O 0, held at thelo wer ends in said notches G, and at their intersection in loops F of the wire, as shown and described.

JAMES A. MANNING.

Witnesses IRA HADLEY, W. R. DEMPREY. 

